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Ebd #2.3 2013-2014 EBD #2.3 2013-2014 MINUTES ALA Executive Board Meeting 2014 ALA Midwinter Meeting January 24-28, 2014 Philadelphia, PA American Library Association Volume 18 1 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Executive Board Meeting 2014 ALA Midwinter Meeting American Library Association Marriott Hotel Philadelphia, PA The ALA Executive Board met in Independence I &II of the Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia, PA, from January 24-28, 2014. PRESENT: President Barbara K. Stripling; President-elect Courtney Young; Treasurer Mario Gonzalez; Immediate Past President Maureen Sullivan; Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels; Executive Board members: Robert Banks, Dora T. Ho, Alexia Hudson- Ward, Sara Kelly Johns, John A. Moorman, James G. Neal, Michael Porter, and J. Linda Williams (via telephone). The agenda (2013-2014 EBD #9.2.1) is attached as Exhibit 1. Session One The Board convened at 8:30AM on Friday, January 24, 2014, with President Barbara Stripling presiding. Agenda Approval By consent, the Executive Board approved the agenda for the 2014 ALA Midwinter Executive Board Meeting (2013-2014 EBD #9.2.1 Exhibit 1). Consent agenda Procedural/Consent Items The Executive Board approved the following items: By consent, accepted the following reports: President’s Report (2013-2014 EBD #7.3, Exhibit 2); President-elect’s Report (2013-2014 EBD #7.4, Exhibit 3); Executive Director’s Report (2012-2013 EBD #12.15, Exhibit 4. By consent, approved the 2013 ALA Fall Executive Board Meeting Minutes and Vote Tally (2013-2014 EBD #2.2 and EBD #1.4, Exhibits 5 and 6). By consent, confirmed the Executive Board conference call votes from the December 17, 2013, call (2013-2014 EBD #1.5 Exhibit 7). During that call, the Board voted to approve ACRL canceling its letter of intent to hold ACRL 2017 in Nashville and approve selection of either Baltimore or Charlotte as the host city for the ACRL 2017 conference and authorize staff to make the final selection after site visits can be conducted, the most attractive overall package and terms are determined, and letters 2 of support obtained from the ALA and ACRL chapters contiguous to the site, as outlined in EBD #12.10, 2013-2014. Executive Committee Report President Barbara Stripling reported that the Executive Committee of the ALA Executive Board met on Thursday, January 23, 2014, during which the Committee discussed the upcoming statements to be released, regarding the outcomes of the Executive Board Retreat, held on January 21 and 22, 2014, in Philadelphia, PA. Digital Content and Libraries – EBD #12.12 (Exhibit 8) Alan Inouye, Director of the Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP), and Digital Content and Libraries Working Group (DCWG) Co-Chairs Sari Feldman and Robert Wolven provided an update on the work of the Digital Content and Libraries Working Group and the meetings with various groups around the topic of e-books and digital content. • Over the past six months, the relationship between libraries and the Big Five publishers has greatly improved. Macmillan expanded its pilot program to include all backlist titles, Penguin Books USA made its ebooks available through OverDrive, and Simon & Schuster expanded its pilot program beyond New York City. DCWG Co-Chair Robert Wolven has been a major participant in meetings with the Big Five. • The DCWG held an ALA Virtual Town Hall Meeting to provide ALA membership with an update of the state of library ebooks and an opportunity to ask questions.700 people participated. • In a recent article in Publishers Weekly, the DCWG was praised for its work on ebook access and for its engagement with commercial publishers. • The DCWG will hold a public program at this Midwinter Meeting, on Saturday, January 25, that examines the ebook revolution from the author’s perspective. The program will feature Ginger Clark, a literary agent with Curtis Brown, LTD, and Peter Brantley, Director of Scholarly Communications at Hypothes.is (as of February 2014). • The DCWG will meet for its business meeting at this Midwinter Meeting, on Saturday, January 25. The group will discuss the DCWG’s agenda going forward. Feldman and Wolven will share a draft agenda that would refocus the group in four areas: 1. Continue the monitoring and advocacy within the area of business models for major trade in ebooks. 2. Examine the relationship between libraries and independent publishing, self-publishing, and other new initiatives. 3. Examine the topic of ebook preservation. 4. Examine non-ebook digital content and the role it plays in libraries. Discussion turned to the continued existence of the DCWG. While some of the DCWG’s work could be appropriately distributed to existing bodies within ALA, other functions and issues do not have a ready home at this point. In addition, the DCWG has become the primary source within ALA for quotes and speakers on topics related to digital content. 3 A Board member requested that the DCWG report on what has been learned regarding the structure and work processes of the group, as future groups within ALA may wish to use it as an effective model. Policy Revolution! – EBD #12.13 (Exhibit 9) Alan Inouye, Director of the Office for Information Technology Policy; Emily Sheketoff, ALA Associate Executive Director, Washington Office; and Alan Fishel, Partner, Arent Fox Law Firm, discussed Policy Revolution!, OITP’s new initiative to increase library visibility and strengthen capacity for sustained action in national public policy. It is funded by a $1 million, three-year grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ALA was awarded the grant in November 2013, after 18 months of discussion and brainstorming with the Gates Foundation on how best to provide libraries with proactive policy engagement at the national level. The Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA) is a named partner on the initiative. The OITP Advisory Committee will have oversight of the initiative, with the Library Advisory Committee (LAC) serving as the primary conduit to the U.S. library community at large. The LAC includes the chairs of the ALA OITP Advisory Committee and the ALA Committee on Legislation, as well as the COSLA president as ex-officio members. Jim Neal is the designated liaison from the ALA Executive Board. The LAC will meet for the first time at this Midwinter Meeting. The Public Policy Advisory Council also plays a role in the initiative and will be focused on national-level policy and advocacy leaders from outside of the library community. Inouye noted that, in a sense, libraries are in a revolution. Library roles are fundamentally evolving, and national policy needs require critical review so that libraries may continue to provide effective public access to information. A crucial part of the initiative is the inclusion of all relevant units across ALA, as well as other national bodies, including the U.S. Copyright Office, the Federal Communications Commission, and various publishers. The first phase of the initiative is underway and involves conducting an environmental scan of how ALA has impacted policy and advocacy at the national level, thus far. It will also look at trends in the library field and related fields (e.g. technology.) A centerpiece of the grant is having the law firm Arent Fox on retainer, with Allen Fishel as the key contact working on the initiative. There is also funding for strategic communications capability and the hiring of a policy analyst. Discussion turned to existing challenges and opportunities. The initiative will introduce ALA on a higher level to policy arenas that have been difficult to break into for many years, including the addressing of community needs. It will provide opportunities to work with companies and national bodies that share common goals with ALA. It will also look at efforts to be made in the rewriting of both the Copyright Act and the Telecommunications Act. 4 A Board member inquired about how the initiative will go about soliciting feedback from the library community. Inouye explained that the LAC exists for this purpose and will be one of the major sources for the gathering of feedback. A Board member expressed the hope that the new initiative will also look at where national policy intersects with global policy, as issues relevant to libraries today are often influenced by treaties and other global agreements. Media Relations/Campaign for America’s Libraries – EBD #12.16 and #12.17 (Exhibits 10 and 11) Sonia Alcantara-Antoine, Chair, Public Awareness Committee; Cathleen Bourdon, Associate Executive Director, Communications and Member Relations; and Mark Gould, Director, Public Information Office (PIO), gave an update on current ALA media relations issues and the Campaign for America’s Libraries: • Ten librarians were honored by the Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award at the Times Center in New York City on December 17. An Associated Press article on the event was picked up by thousands of news websites, blogs, and social media platforms, including the Washington Post, Salon.com, and ABC News. To date, 60 libraries across the country have been awarded. A proposal on how to sustain the award beyond 2014 is currently under discussion. • Author and intellectual freedom advocate Judy Blume will serve as Honorary Chair of the 2014 National Library Week (April 13-19, 2014.) Tools for librarians on how to promote National Library Week have been posted to the ALA website. • PIO and Campaign for America’s Libraries staff will provide communications support to the Libraries Transforming Communities initiative, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This includes the development of a media relations webinar that will share best practices with grant recipients on communications planning and effective messaging. Staff will also develop an in- depth media relations planning document that grant recipients can access through the project’s toolkit.
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